Music to drink tea by
Tender Trap – Girls With Guns
“Amelia Fletcher never meant anything to me” declared Los Campesinos! on The International Tweexcore Underground, and for the longest time, I was just like them. My journey through indiepop has been a largely backwards one, with many of my discoveries only through the modern bands that are influenced by the bands of the past. A few years ago was the first time I heard Fletcher’s seminal Heavenly, and more shockingly, it was only last year that I first listened to Tallulah Gosh. It took me a while with Heavenly, and I went through quite a long period of reasonably enjoying them but not much more. Some time on though and I regard The Decline and Fall of Heavenly as one of my favourite albums.
For the last decade though, Fletcher’s talents have been located within Tender Trap, not to be confused with a bafflingly more popular band with a similar name. Tender Trap used to slant more toward an electronic sound, but now seem to be heading back toward a sound more in line with Fletcher’s previous bands. Adding to this, Elizabeth Darling of the oft-praised on here Allo Darlin’ is now a part of the lineup, somehow finding time to be in more than one top notch band at the same time. Girls With Guns is a great little single with a half-hilarious, half-disturbing video that doesn’t hide the fact it was made on a shoestring. I might have been late jumping on the Fletcher bandwagon in the past, but I’m certainly on board for the band’s upcoming third album now.
MP3 Tender Trap – Girls With Guns
Tender Trap’s third album, entitled Dansette, Dansette will be released sometime in the summer on Fortuna Pop! in the UK and Slumberland in the US.
